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Originally Posted by SeigneurAo
The main difference being, in my opinion, that with ebooks editors do have the means to enforce these policies, whereas it is quite complicated with paper books, as you rightly put it.
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In the past, book publishers could rely upon the fact that it was prohibitively expensive to make small numbers of copies of a book. Rather than photocopy or pay a scribe to correctly transcribe a book. it was cheaper to just buy another copy. With digital files, the effective price of a user copying a book approaches 0. Thus, publishers have sought out other means of reducing the incentive to copy.